CVE-2021-41110criticalCWE-502

CVE-2021-41110: critical vulnerability in common-workflow-language cwlviewer

CWL Viewer: deserialization of untrusted data can lead to complete takeover by an attacker

Published 01 Oct 2021 · Updated 04 Aug 2024

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28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 9.1epss 2.8%

cwlviewer is a web application to view and share Common Workflow Language workflows. Versions prior to 1.3.1 contain a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability. Commit number f6066f09edb70033a2ce80200e9fa9e70a5c29de (dated 2021-09-30) contains a patch. There are no available workarounds aside from installing the patch. The SnakeYaml constructor, by default, allows any data to be parsed. To fix the issue the object needs to be created with a `SafeConstructor` object, as seen in the patch.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected products

common-workflow-language · cwlviewer

References

https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwlviewer/commit/f6066f09edb70033a2ce80200e9fa9e70a5c29de https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwlviewer/security/advisories/GHSA-7g7j-f5g3-fqp7 https://www.fatalerrors.org/a/analysis-of-the-snakeyaml-deserialization-in-java-security.html